I Keep Telling My Cop Friends That I Am Not "Anti-Police" Just Anti-Police-State. But, It Is Wearing Thin. - Doug Harman.

Unmanned drones could soon be buzzing in the skies above many U.S. cities, as the federal government green-lights the technology for local law enforcement amid widespread privacy concerns. Boy, there sure have been some big changes happening over the last ten years, yes? With that in mind, Dragon's Breath is a zirconium-based pyrotechnic shotgun round. When the round is fired, sparks and flames shoot out to about 48 feet away from the gun, as demonstrated by FPS Russia and his two unlucky mannequin. While its tactical uses are very limited, the visual effect it produces is impressive, similar to that of a short-ranged flamethrower. They can also be used as means of intimidation to the opposing forces. The pyrotechnic shell is expensive compared to other types of shotgun ammunition, costing around 5 US dollars per shell. There is little to no record of its use in actual combat and Dragon's breath rounds are banned in many locations including Florida (sigh), due to their inherent fire hazard. The Taurus Judge is a five shot revolver designed and produced by Taurus International, chambered for .410 bore shotgun shells and the .45 Colt cartridge. So I think Dragon's Breath + Taurus Judge = some pretty awesome drone skeet shooting opportunities! Maybe a little Drone Flambé?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but is this guy wearing a pair of Crocs? How gaudy.

Room service is an accommodation available at many hotels, whose employees bring food or other items to guests in their rooms. Due to the poor economic status since 2007, hotels are starting to either phase out their in room dining/room service or limit the previous selection of in room service. High end hotels still provide room services, some are providing limited in room dining, while other hotel chains continue to provide a full selection of room service.

Anyway, in just a few months, the world is going to be celebrating the 30th Summer Olympic games in London, England. The opening ceremonies will begin on July 27th and carry on until the last day of competition on August 12th. All our favorite athletes will be participating from Lebron James to Stephanie Rice. Which Olympic sport is your favorite? There are so many beautiful women in the world of track and field -- think Darya Klishina from Russia and Leryn Franco from Paraguay -- with many of them not talented enough to make it to London. But that does not stop me from covering them. Here are the 25 hottest track stars, past and present, good and bad.

The Key West Historic District is a U.S. historic district, designated as such on March 11, 1971, and located in Key West, Florida. As of February 24, 1983, the district was expanded to 5400 acres, bounded by Emma, Whitehead, White, and South Streets, Mallory Square, and the Atlantic Ocean, to contain 2485 historic buildings and 4 structures. Old Town is the name given to the historic district of the island of Key West, Florida. It is roughly the western half of the island. It is also where the central business district and majority of tourist attractions are located. Points of interest include: Key West Aquarium, Captain Tony's Saloon, Key West Cemetery, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters Key West, Ernest Hemingway House, Key West Shipwreck Historeum Museum, The Bull & Whistle bars, the Harry S. Truman Little White House, and the Western Union schooner.

I ponied up some bucks for Ozzy and encourage others to as well. I hope you're making the best use of your time together -- you're House, and Bodie is Wilson. Because one thing that I never quite understood, and for that matter swore I'd never do, is when I see someone wait until their dog is in their twilight years; their pooch has been given some horrible diagnosis, or can't get up and down by themselves and euthanasia seems inevitable, before taking the time to doing something really cool for their dog. "Oh before my dog passes we're going to do this," or, "I cooked my dog a nice steak the day before we brought him in to be put to sleep." I've seen a lot of Youtube videos of senior poooches who still have lots of life left to them, but sometimes they're strugling to enjoy activities that would be best suited to a puppy or middle aged dog. That's not to say that I don't think you should enjoy your time with your older dog -- Ike is 12 and Bianca is 9 -- I'm saying don't wait for them to become an older dog, to do it. Every once in awhile let your best friend rock the fuck out with a bacon cake, or a shitload of tennis balls, or a roomfull of balloons, or even just each other. Don't wait until your pooch is hampered by cataracts and arthritis to show him that he's really the coolest little fucker on the planet.

The flag of Russia is a tricolour flag of three equal horizontal fields, white on the top, blue in the middle and red on the bottom. The flag was first used as an ensign for Russian merchant ships and only became official in 1896. The flag continued to be used by the Russian Provisional Government after the Tsar was toppled in the February Revolution and was not replaced until the October Revolution which established a Bolshevik government. From that time period, a red flag charged with communist symbols was favoured over the tricolor. It was not until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 that the tricolor was brought back as the official flag of the new Russian Federation. The modern era flag underwent a slight change in 1993 and has been official since 2000.

At some point, Frank Miller's "Dark Knight Returns" will be made into a film, and an old Batman will be a necessity. No one embodies an ancient Bruce Wayne more than Clint Eastwood. Along with 21 other actors who should be cast in comic book movies.

The Gianantonio Paladini lingerie collections draw inspiration from the great tradition of Italian lingerie reworked to achieve contemporary, updated designs. Fabrics are some of the most precious designed for the greatest comfort on any occasion, whether for day or night. Every women will appreciate the care in details, the skilled workmanship and the finishing touches that make these piece truly special, as beautiful to own as they are to wear.

Sure makeup can make you look pretty if applied in moderation or stunningly beautiful if properly done. While looking great is well... great, when you naturally look horrifying, it may come at a big surprise to that guy you just met last night. Here are examples of women who looks extremely hot but be weary of the secret beneath the surface!

Taxidermy (from the Greek for arrangement of skin) is the art of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of animals for display as hunting trophies or for other sources of study. Taxidermy can be done on all vertebrate species of animals, including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians. A person who practices taxidermy is called a taxidermist. Taxidermists may practise professionally, for museums or as businesses catering to hunters and fishermen, or as amateurs, such as hobbyists, hunters, and fishermen. To practise taxidermy, one must be very familiar with anatomy, sculpture, and painting, as well as tanning.

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In human anatomy, the vertebral column usually consists of 24 articulating vertebrae, and 9 fused vertebrae in the sacrum and the coccyx. It is situated in the dorsal aspect of the torso, separated by intervertebral discs. It houses and protects the spinal cord in its spinal canal. There are normally thirty-three vertebrae in humans, including the five that are fused to form the sacrum -- the others are separated by intervertebral discs -- and the four coccygeal bones that form the tailbone. The upper three regions comprise the remaining 24, and are grouped under the names cervical (7 vertebrae), thoracic (12 vertebrae) and lumbar (5 vertebrae), according to the regions they occupy. This number is sometimes increased by an additional vertebra in one region, or it may be diminished in one region, the deficiency often being supplied by an additional vertebra in another.

Last week I linked a list of the goofiest hats at the 2012 Kentucky Derby. Today, I bring you something even better: a list of the gorgeous women underneath those hats. I mean, it’s only fair. After all, there were so many charming ladies at the Derby this year, why should the stupid hats to get all the attention? Now, some of these women are famous celebrities, and some are just regular old incredibly gorgeous women who happen to like horse racing and mint juleps. Either way, I think it’s clear that Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, is the place to be on the first Saturday in May.

Absolutely not. Haven't you heard? Wearing a hoodie immediately makes you the good guy. That soldier was just using his ribs and face to assault those three nice gentlemen, you racist bastard. And so this attacked certainly does NOT stack up as one of the 11 recent wins for gun owners that passed with H.R. 5326. And semi-related: here is ten minutes worth of American Soldiers returning from war and surprising their loved ones. Added bonus: not to get all dramatic but read the international Facebook comments at the bottom, and check out how Washington DC treats soldiers.

A whip antenna is an antenna consisting of a single straight flexible wire or rod, often mounted above some type of conducting surface called a ground plane. The bottom end of the whip is connected to the radio receiver or transmitter. These antennas are widely used for hand-held radios such as cell phones, cordless phones, walkie-talkies, FM radios, boom boxes, Wifi enabled devices, and GPS receivers, and also attached to vehicles as the antennas for car radios and two way radios for police, fire and aircraft. They are designed to be flexible so that they won't break off, and the name is derived from their whip-like motion when disturbed. Often whip antennas for portable radios are made of a series of interlocking telescoping metal tubes, so they can be retracted when not in use. They are the most common type of monopole antenna.

Oh no, no, now. Since you wrote in on May 8th, I presume you're referring to the image I posted on May 3rd, which I gave fair warning and appropriately titled The Most Disturbing Image I Have Ever Seen. And to be fair, that's not scat -- since scat (coprophilia) is defined as "an absorbing interest in feces or filth, particularly a paraphilia in which sexual arousal." Now I'd hope you didn't get a chubby from said photo, and I'm going to go to sleep tonight thinking that's the case. I just think that sometimes shit can be funny, especially when it's up there with the shock value.

Fact: A Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations. Fact: Hammerhead sharks attack humans on the average of once every 11 years. Fact: One in five women living with their boyfriend has more than one sexual partner. And yes, there are 43 more of these delicious little tidbits.

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I Am Quite Thankful To Be That Less Than That One Percent.

Look lady, I'm really sorry you had to spend your Mother's Day without Trayvon, but you should be ashamed of yourself for helping to propogate the 30,000 gun deaths myth. I think you should take a long look and ask if this woman should have been sentenced to 20 years in prison. The Stand Your Ground law is sound, the problem is it's just being applied by fucking idiots as of late. By the way, don't forget that "Justice For Trayvon" copyright.

While some casino cheaters make their way through Vegas with sleight of hand or innovative technology, others rely on their natural gift of nerdery. Dennis Nikrasch would probably be just as at home in a cubicle as he is in a prison cell, which, not coincidentally, is now his actual home. That's because he used his hacking skills to rip $6 million off from computer-based slot machines. So how the hell do you "hack" a machine that isn't connected to any kind of network, and is locked up tight to keep people just like this guy away? First, he bought himself his own slot machine to practice on at home. Then he bought the computer chips that regulated the slots from the machine manufacturer. He figured out how to modify his chips so that he could trigger a payoff any time he wanted, but of course that only let him beat the slot machine he owned, and what he needed to do was get his hacked chips inside the casino's machines. Nikrasch put together his team that would position themselves so that surveillance cameras couldn't watch, then Nikrasch would open the slot machine, replace the computer chip and close it back up. Another accomplice would play the machine, triggering the jackpot, and everybody won. Except Nikrasch, when his own team set him up for a bust.

The martini is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth, and over the years, has become one of the best-known mixed alcoholic beverages. H. L. Mencken called the martini, "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet," and E. B. White called it, "the elixir of quietude". The martini was originally made with sweet vermouth. A person who wanted a 'dry martini' asked for one made with white vermouth. Until World War II the standard proportion was 1 part vermouth to 3 to 3 1/2 parts gin. These days the dryness of a martini refers to the amount of vermouth used in the drink, with a very dry martini having little or no Vermouth. The ingredients are mixed then strained and served in a chilled cocktail glass and garnished with either a green olive or a twist of lemon.

Some uppity white bitch says we don't have the budget for proper space travel and so we have to use robots instead. She get the fucking smackdown. By who, you ask? By none other than NEIL DEGRASSE FUCKING TYSON, that's who. The best part? The look on her face when he cuts her off mid-sentence and they gets cheered on by Bill Nye-The-Science-Guy and some other geek I don't recognize.

Okay, I've done my research but can't figure out what Val Kilmer movie this scene is from. I don't think it's Top Gun... any ideas?

Model Kate Upton recently set the interwebs on fire with her rendition of the Cat Daddy. Her moves were impressive, but it didn't hurt that she was donning the same teeny bikini she wore on the cover of the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. This wasn't the first time Utpon's moves have made headlines. Just a year earlier, her rendition of The Dougie from the stands at a Clippers game became full-on viral sensation—it's been viewed over six million times on YouTube. Obviously we know she can shake it, but she's not the only one in sports who can bust a move. And I'm not talking about ballroom, Dancing with the Stars, kind of dancing. Bleh. I'm talking about busting out some impromptu dance moves on the fly or an impressive coordinated dance. Let's take a look at 25 of the best dancers in sports, plus a couple of honorable mentions.

Caution tape, also known as police tape, is resilient plastic tape of a signal color or highly contrasting color combination such as yellow-black or red-white. It is wrapped and affixed as a visual warning sign and demarcation, for instance against entering a dangerous area, such as a roadworks construction site or the scene of an accident or a crime, or against handling inoperative machinery or appliances. It often carries corresponding warnings prominently in writing.

From the Truer-Words-Have-Never-Been-Spoken Department: A Lamborghini may be nice, but two is always better right? Although just because you want two of them doesn’t mean you need them. Hell, you actually don’t even need one believe it or not. A Prius can be just as good of a method of transportation as a Lamborghini as long as you’re not trying to escape an apocalypse happening behind you. In that case, you may live while Mark Zuckerberg gets left behind and eaten up by the earth. ASnd what they say about smart phone vs dumb phone is some true ass shit.

The corridors are empty, the cells no longer occupied; yet there is still a presence in the old buildings, an unsettling atmosphere of misery and death built into its very walls. Whether the site is actually haunted by spirits or whether this is just the feeling of the place – a remnant of its troubled and troubling past – Fremantle Prison in Western Australia is one spooky site to explore. In fact, forty-four people, including one woman, were executed here while the prison was operational.

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is an important ligament for proper movement. ACL injury more commonly causes knee instability than does injury to other knee ligaments. Injuries of the ACL range from mild such as small tears to severe when the ligament is completely torn. Women in sports such as football, basketball, tennis and volleyball are significantly more prone to ACL injuries than men. The discrepancy has been attributed to differences between the sexes in anatomy, general muscular strength, reaction time of muscle contraction and coordination, and training techniques. Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACL reconstruction) is a surgical tissue graft replacement of the anterior cruciate ligament, located in the knee, to restore its function after anterior cruciate ligament injury. The torn ligament is removed from the knee before the graft is inserted through a hole created by a single hole punch. The surgery is performed arthroscopically and leaves minimal scaring, usually on the inside of the knee.

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Happy Mother's Day, Mom.

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This City... Is Stalingrad. *Stalingrad*! This City Bears The Name Of The Boss.

One rifle that I always end up taking to the range is my Mosin Nagant. It's old, it's sturdy enough to use as a club, it's got a foot and a half bayonet, it belches flame and it kicks like a fucking mule. Oh, and it's cheap to shoot... $0.17 /round as compared to modern .308 which is around, eh, $0.48/round. The trade off for this economical shooting is older Eartern Bloc ammunition is corrosive, which means the firearm has to be cleaned immediately after a trip to the range, as opposed to letting it sit for a few days which you can do with the modern non-corrosive stuff. The accepted story says if you don't clean your rifle barrel that day, by the next morning it will be so rusted it will look as if you've left it out in the rain for a week. True or false, I dunno, I just clean my shit and don't take the chance.

But older bolt-action battle rifles -- especially ones employed over 70 years ago -- are sometimes not the most fun to shoot for extended periods of time, and to be honest a little change every now and again is refreshing. So this left me with three options if I wanted to wtick with 54R ammunition. I can plop down $3,000 on a Russian Dragunov; I can plop down $1,000 on a cheap Romanian knockoff of the Dragunov called a PSL, most of which are very hard to find in their original form and have now become a fleet of mismatched piece-meal parts; or I can plop down $1,000 on a Russian SVT, a known problematic gun which was intended to be the replacement for the Mosin Nagant but ended up being eclipsed by Mikhail Kalashnikov's AK-47. And just for reference, there are currently only 6 SVT's for sale online around the entire country.

So for the past year or so, I've wanted to pick up another rifle in 54R -- I know what you're thinking, I need another rifle like I need a nother hole in my head -- but none of the existing choices really tickled my fancy. Well I mean they did, but if I'm going to drop a grand on a World War II battle rifle, it's going to be an American M1 Garand, not a Ruskie. Anyway the solution to my problem finally came to the market a few months ago -- Russian firearms manufacturer Molot came out with their Vepr rifle in 54R and I giggles like a school girl. So for my birthday The Boss lady hooked me up with a new setup, even though I couldn't read any of the fucking instruction manuals since -- yep -- they're written in Russian. Slapped me on a POSP 8x40 scope with an illuminated reticle and now I can shoot zombies -- at night -- for short money. And who knows, maybe one of these days an SVT will follow me home and I'll get a nice little collection of Russian rifles going. Hey like they always say, don't fuck with the Russians.

A gun holster seems like a pretty simple device. It's basically just a gun-shaped pocket, right? If it were to fail, it seems like the worst that could happen is that the gun would fall out when you're walking around the grocery store. Or maybe in a quick-draw situation it would stick and the bad guy could get the jump on you -- but how often does that come up in everyday life? Apparently manufactured by our own favorite drunk uncle, the 2002 version of Uncle Mike's gun holster for Glock model handguns had a nasty tendency to shoot at people. The malfunctioning line featured a retention strap that did the exact opposite of what it should have done, i.e., securing the gun in place so it couldn't be accidentally fired. Instead, when you took your gun out of the holster, the strap had a tendency to move out of position and actually pull the gun's trigger when it was reholstered. Heads started turning after three separate occasions of holster-induced involuntary discharges, not least because one of them was an actual cop who was shot in the leg. Instead of completely recalling the product, the company opted to just replace the flawed straps with a wider, differently designed version that the consumers could install themselves.

Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; a freshly exposed surface has a reddish-orange color. It is used as a conductor of heat and electricity, a building material, and a constituent of various metal alloys. The metal and its alloys have been used for thousands of years. Its compounds are commonly encountered as copper salts, which often impart blue or green colors to minerals such as turquoise and have been widely used historically as pigments. Architectural structures built with copper corrode to give green verdigris. Verdigris is the common name for a green pigment obtained through the application of acetic acid to copper plates or the natural patina formed when copper, brass or bronze is weathered and exposed to air or seawater over a period of time. It is usually a basic copper carbonate, but near the sea will be a basic copper chloride. If acetic acid is present at the time of weathering, it may consist of copper acetate.

The funeral service for The Yomiuri Shimbun's honorary Chairman Yosoji Kobayashi, who died at 86 on December 30, 2000, was held at Tsukiji Honganji temple in Chuo Ward, Tokyo. About 3,000 people, including Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and Japan Professional Baseball Commissioner Hiromori Kawashima, attended the ceremony and mourned the death of Yosoji Kobayashi, who made notable achievements in the bureaucratic world and had a successful career in the mass communications industry. Obuchi and three former prime ministers, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Toshiki Kaifu and Ryutaro Hashimoto, followed Kobayashi's family in burning incense for the repose of his soul.

It is getting close to that time of year again. The time when school is out, kids are bored, and beaches are full of drunken idiots looking for a tan. And yes, I might be one of those idiots, but my tan isn't working out so I guess I will try again tomorrow. It's time for summer. In the sports world, it means no more football, basketball, or hockey. But that shouldn't stop you from watching ESPN. It is not only summer time but it is X Games time. This is my favorite time of year. I get to watch the skateboarding, skating and biking athletes, from all over the world compete for gold. I know I can't do any of that stuff, so watching others do it is just as fulfilling. In honor of the Summer X Games, here are the the hottest females, past and present, of the X Games.

Spectators casually mill around the sandy arena as the combatants are weighed and armed. Bets are placed, and the chances of the individual fighters are discussed and analyzed. The audience is mostly male, but women and children can also be seen here and there, eating and chatting as preparations for the contest continue. Once the battle begins, all eyes will be on the two fighters and their brutally ferocious battle, which will likely end in a bloody death for the loser, and sometimes even for the victor as well. It’s cruelty and animal exploitation versus history and tradition, with both sides convinced of their righteousness.

OH AND HEY -- don't forget that Mother's Day is this Sunday. So take a moment to (a) get your mother something nice and (b) be grateful that none of these women are your mother. And given that I lost my mom to cancer, I always try to keep abreast of what's going on in the cancer treatment world, and just as importantly, how insurance companies are treating their customers who are battling cancer. I guess something happened recently but I only caught a snipet of it on the news. Does anyone know what's going on?

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